“ The Web has search engines - many of them. However, they are typically concerned only with the text content of a Web page. What about a search engine for a Web page's structure? ”

Metadata Analysis and Mining Application

On CSS :

• reset styles
• efficient conditional comments
• pagination styles

“ Version targeting shakes our browser-agnostic faith. Its default behavior runs counter to our expectations, and seems wrong. Yet to offer true DOM support without bringing JScript-authored sites to their knees, version targeting must work the way Microsoft proposes, argues Jeffrey Zeldman.”

Version Targeting: Threat or Menace?

On A List Apart:

Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8

From Switches to Targets: A Standardista's Journey

I'm posting using an iBook G4. I borrowed it for a few days, first time having a Mac all to myself. I have used Macs before, but always just to quickly check my email or something equally fast. Now I have a chance to try a few more things. It's also a good opportunity to see how my web sites look on Safari 1.1; so far so good, just a bit of difference in the size of the text that on Safari shows bolder then on IE6, Firefox or Opera on PC.

Simon Willison has found out that a Firefox extension has the capability to create a graph that shows “every component of the page - JavaScript, CSS, images - and when each component started and finished loading”:

graphing requests with Tamper Data

On cross browser text size:

• Reminder: Cross browser font sizes
• Text Sizing
• Default Font Size: The Battle is Won
• Font Size

Personally I set the font size in the body at 80% and use percentage values for everything else (p 100%, h2 100%, h3 90%), no ems.

On webdevout: Web browser standards support

Microformats and browsers:

• Microformats in Web Browsers
• Safari Microformats plugin

I have been trying to find the best solution to the
inline wrap IE6 bug for a year. Right now I have to write a post then see how it looks on IE and add a <br /> tag to avoid wrapping of the links with the consequent external link icon loss. The solution offered in the post above doesn't work for me because the CSS does not validate using display:inline-block. I hope this bug will be fixed in IE7..

On 456 Berea St. :
AJAX, JavaScript support and screen reader accessibility

On Quirksmode:
IE 7 and JavaScript

On Vitamin: Stop Hacking, or be Stopped

I always try to avoid any hacks adapting the layout so as to avoid the different renderings of the browsers. That put some limitations on what I could do but now it pays off since I don't have to change anything.

On Digital Web: seven accessibility mistakes - part 1

Also, it's now possible to download a pre-release software of Internet Explorer 7 : Beta 2

Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 has been released.

This Simon Willison's post highlights all the new features.

It's old news, I know, but it's also useful to have a link to the complete ISO Latin-1 Character Set for Internet Explorer 4.0 and later to avoid seeing an ugly &apos; instead of the intended apostrophe.

For whoever does not know what I'm talking about, Internet Explorer does not support the &apos; entity added to the XHTML 1.0 specifications (since ' is an XML entity), which means that insted of showing an apostrophe it shows just &apos;

Use &#39; whenever you need an apostrophe and everything will be all right.